A video showing a Wirral man climbing to the top of Liverpool’s big wheel - and then being stopped by police as his feet touched the floor - has surfaced online.

Jason Osborne filmed his entire early morning exploit , beginning at the point he rode through the Mersey Tunnel on his push bike and told viewers he had been “wanting to climb the wheel for a while”.

After the self-styled freeclimber arrived on the Liverpool side of the water he then spoke to a number of people in the city centre and even rode his bike into McDonald’s , on Church Street, with one on the back.

He said he was inspired to climb the Wheel of Liverpool because he wanted to get some “sick shots, all picturesque and beautiful” when he eventually got to the top.